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Paul Wunderlich  "Paul," Color Lithograph, signed and dated 1987, edition 48/98 by Paul Wundelich, German, (b. 1927). Winner of numerous awards for color lithography, Wunderlich is the most prominent member of the second generation of Fantastic Realists, called Magical Realists. Borrowing from classical mythology, he weaves contemporary human images with historical references in a cool analytical aloof way to transport the viewer into his world of surreal eroticism, irony, and aesthetic symbolism. Wunderlich studied art in the orangery at Castle Eutin and later at Hamburg Academy. But after three years in Paris, he returned to the Hamburg University of Fine Arts as Professor of graphic art and painting. The artist’s early "abstract-figurative" works depicted his horrific witness of Natzi Germany under Adolf Hitler. But by the 1960’s, he adopted a more erotic symbolist/ surreal style using photographs taken by his artist wife Karin Szekessy. Works held in the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the British Museum, Victoria and Albert Museum, Kunstmuseum in Mannheim, Staatsgalerie fur Modern Kunst in Munchen, Musee des Beaux-Arts in Brussels, and the Getty Museum. Previous • Back to List • Next |